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The 5 points for proposing an idea for a research, technological development and innovation project to INNOVANET - CONSEN Grouping in order to be prepared and presented in EU programmes requesting funds are the following: IDEAS, Where everything starts. Promote your IST RTD+I EU funded project and CONSEN will advise and support you to bring IDEAS to EXCELLENT REALITY!!
- support the best of the best scientific efforts in Europe across all fields of science, engineering and scholarship;
- encourage wholly investigator-driven, or 'bottom-up' frontier research
- encourage the work of the established and next generation of independent top creative research and innovators leaders in Europe;
- reward innovative proposals by placing emphasis on the quality of the idea rather than the research area;
- harness the diversity of European research talent and channel funds into the most promising ideas;
- raise the status and visibility of European frontier research and the best researchers of today and tomorrow.
proposals (please you can attach 5 slides in pdf format). Ah!!! thanks in advance for your contribution.
INNOVANET - CONSEN Euro-Group
| One Idea presentation in 3 points and 5 slides | ||
| Research area to be covered by proposal • Draft the main points of the work-plan | Potential research consortium • Identify existing partners and skill-set • Identify any gaps or areas where you are searching for a suitable partner • Outline criteria for potential partners e.g. send organisation/personnel CV | Agenda Next steps
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| Maximum 2 slides | Maximum 2 slides | Maximum 1 slides |
| One idea presentation in 5 points and 5 slides | ||||
| 1) State of Art [SoA] - The situation is ...:
Current situation & problem? | 2) What we want to do?: What is and how we want to fix, solve, change or/and improve? Quantitative qualitative objectives we have? | 3- How to reach our aims? What are the key points-dates of the project execution? Work-plan? | 4) What and who we need? What and who we need?
Resources needed? | 5) The are the main results? Which are the main outputs, deliverables, milestones we want to reach? Resusts? |
1. State of the Art [SoA] BACKGROUND, PROBLEMS
1.1. What is the current situation and problem?
This part should be a introduction to describe, in general terms, why it is desirable to launch the CONSEN Action in question.
It should summarise the previous research and the current state of knowledge in the field of the proposal.
It could include an analysis of relevant research in the EU Framework Programmes and other European fora. It may be useful also to compare the European research with that in, for example, the USA, Canada, Japan or other parts of the World.
In addition it should explain the reasons for the proposed cooperation with a distinction between the objectives, the expected results and the means to achieve them. As far as possible, this should be done with emphasis on immediate or future applications envisaged, so that even a reader who is not a specialist in the field obtains a clear picture of the expected benefits of the Action.
You may briefly describe also possible complementarity with ongoing or planned research in the EU Framework Programme and other European organisations such as EUREKA, ESF etc., as one of the goals of COST is to avoid duplication of efforts in Europe.
Indicate the background of the proposal, the specific problems the network wants to solve and the goal the network would like to achieve. This part should demonstrate that the proposal addresses real current scientific and or technical issues with a high relevance for European society.
2. What we want to do? BENEFITS
2.1. What is and how we want to fix, solve, change or/and improve?
2.2. Positive contributions to the current situation.
This part should explain the expected benefits of the proposal itself without the networking aspects. These benefits could be societal,scientific or in the field of technology. There may be also other benefits for other areas which should be elaborated here.
3. How to reach the objectives and our aims? SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME AND INNOVATION
3.1. What are the key works and dates of the project execution?
3.2. Main activities and duration of the Actions
Here the most important research tasks to be carried out should be described (the structure of the work plan), with necessary explanation of how they will lead to achieving the objectives. In particular the innovative elements of the proposals and its originality have to be presented.
You should remember that scientists that have not participated in the preparation are also entitled to join the network at a later stage if their countries sign the MoU. For that reason, the proposal must provide an open and flexible framework making it possible for any interested country to join the Action.
It will greatly enhance the clarity of the proposal if Section D is wholly focused on outlining the scientific content of the Action, while all organisational matters such as setting up Working Groups are dealt.
4. What and who we need? WORKS AND ORGANISATION
4.1. Partners and Competences needed
4.2. Infrastructures
4.3. Equipments
4.4. Persons and times needed
4.5. Budget
The main purpose of this part is to give a clear picture of the arrangement of the Action When you have clarified the reasons for the proposed co-operation, you should explain why CONSEN seems to offer the best framework for it, for as compared with, e.g., IST, ESF, ESA, EUREKA or the EU research programmes.
This can be explained by describing the advantages or benefits, which should be gained from carrying out your project within the CONSEN framework.
This part should clearly reflect the fact that a CONSEN Action is implemented through the concerted action, what means that the research is carried out in the participating countries and financed by themselves, while CONSEN provides the necessary co-ordination
5. What are the Main results? OBJECTIVES, DELIVERABLES AND EXPECTED SCIENTIFIC IMPACT
5.1. Which are the main outputs
5.2. List of deliverables and milestones
5.3. Other knowledge outcomes
This part should clearly indicate what one expects to achieve through the Action in particular what will be the expected impact of this Action.
It is very important to explicitly state all the objectives, whenever possible in quantitative terms making it easier to evaluate, how well the Action may achieve its goals.
As far as possible, the likely end users of expected results should be clearly indicated.
In formulating objectives one has to distinguish between the aims (something toward which effort is directed) and the means to achieve them (methods or ways for accomplishing something).
Carefully avoid all specifications of means - e.g. scientific problems to be solved as well as research tasks - as they belong to part of the Scientific programme.
- take time to plan
- find a question that is both challenging and possible, both open and focused
- check their research doesn't beg a question*
- explore many kinds of sources, not just textbooks
- learn how to speed-read
- get quickly to relevant information
- think analytically and imaginatively about what they find
- store their notes in efficient and interesting ways
- collaborate with others and take on other people's views
- present their final ideas in inspiring and effective ways
- use what they find to solve a problem or make a difference
*begging a question means that the process of questioning is lacking a key piece of information or a key concept.
Make a map At the start of a project, when you aren't sure where to draw the boundaries, get a huge sheet of paper and make a map or diagram of all of your questions, associations, sources and leads. Mark your most compelling thoughts in a strong colour. Mark the main links to those ideas in that colour too. Don't throw out the weaker or isolated thoughts, but this map will help you know their place. You could make another map later in the project when you feel there is too much information.
Archive your questions It is common to archive quotes and extracts but we forget to keep a record of our questions. Record who originally asked the question and leave a space by each one to record answers or places to look for answers. Highlight the questions that you find most challenging, the ones that wake you up. Archiving questions will encourage you to articulate them well. If you form your thoughts as questions, it will help you realise what you need to research. (Of course, some questions will be very specific which might not be interesting to archive separately.) Teachers - there is no minimum age for this. Help younger children make a book, chart or post-box for their questions.
Switch mode Refresh yourself by exploring different types of source. If you've been reading history, find out about so that you can listen to some oral history. If you've been studying art, break out by exploring poetry or music that relates to the period or place. How you switch depends on what you normally do.
Walkabout Find a way of using a walk to gather information for your research. Go with other people so you can talk. Look at buildings, get on a train out of town, do a survey, take photos and sketches, watch people, collect samples. Make a creative record of the walk – use mobile phone cameras, i-pods, GPS waypoints, survey forms, a long scroll of paper or notebooks. Finish the day reviewing your findings over refreshments.
Blog it If you're confident to share your research in its raw ongoing state with others, you could post summaries of your findings and questions on a weblog. This could be a group or individual blog. You could ask for site visitors to suggest further reading, new research methods or to answer your questions.
Talk it over If you have to write an article or essay, but you can't get started with writing or there isn't enough published information, it helps to interview someone else who is interested or informed on the subject. Ask them questions you really want the answers to. Make it a real conversation. Make sure you record it.
Read at speed If you want to practice speed-reading, be competitive about it. Set timed challenges with a friend or a group. Read an article or chapter at the same time. When you've finished, each write down the three most interesting things in the piece. Look on the web for tips on speed reading.
In the margins Sometimes research is effective if it is analysing or interpreting one book, article, theory, design, poem or work of art. Buy a copy of the book or photocopy the document you need. Have absolutely no qualms about writing and drawing all over it. Devise a system for yourself e.g. with colours or symbols to mark words you don't understand, references to follow up, questions, opinions and so on. Fill it with post-its and book-marks. Keep it with you. (Please remember not to write in library books!)
Stationery fetishist Some people just get more motivated by real paper and handwriting. If it helps you collect and organise your thoughts, then why not make or customise a book. You could add more pages of different colours or textures, put graphs or photos in, stick different kinds of envelopes or wallets in, stick in larger sheets or maps that you can fold back into the book. Enjoy it.
Get real Make a product, or think about an application, even if your project doesn't require one. If you feel that your research is too abstract or you're not motivated enough, think about how you could apply it or explain it to others. Could it lead to a new invention? Could you write a book with this? Could you make money from it? What would it be like if it was translated into a TV programme or an exhibition? How might you use it to influence an organisation to change its practices?
Investigator-driven ‘frontier research’, within the framework of activities commonly understood as ‘basic research’, is a key driver of wealth and social progress, as it opens new opportunities for scientific and technological advance, and is instrumental in producing new knowledge leading to future applications and markets.
Despite many achievements and a high level of performance in a large number of fields, Europe is not making the most of its research potential and resources, and urgently needs a strengthened capacity to generate knowledge and translate such knowledge into economic and social value and growth.
The objective of the specific programme ‘Ideas’ is to reinforce excellence, dynamism and creativity in European research and improve the attractiveness of Europe for the best researchers from both European and third countries, as well as for industrial research investment, by providing a Europe-wide competitive funding structure, in addition to and not replacing national funding, for ‘frontier research’ executed by individual teams. Communication and dissemination of research results is an important aspect of this programme.
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